As Minnesota temporarily put the brakes on dozens of new meal locations sponsored by Feeding Our Future in spring 2021, a state lawmaker was privately lobbying for one new site to be added to the system.
A Senate ethics panel is considering whether to pursue an investigation of DFL Sen. Omar Fateh over two Republican complaints that accuse him of seeking state grant money for a Somali media outlet that ran free ads for him in 2020, and his ties to a federal voter fraud case.